'Daily Voting News' For March 19, 2009

 

More bad news for a voting machine vendor. This time the California Secretary of State’s office has announced that they have settled their lawsuit against ES&S.  It was back in 2007 that the state discovered that ES&S had ignored state laws and sold uncertified voting machines to some counties as if they were certified. So now ES&S gets to provide $3.2 M to the state’s coffers. Will it make any difference in the long run? Probably not. ES&S will continue their past bad business practices and many of their customers will continue thinking they only have the choice provided by ES&S.

 

National: ATM malware appears, Diebold issues security

http://www.scmagazineus.com/ATM-malware-appears-Diebold-issues-security-/article/129059/

 

National: Voting machines, HAVA, Holt Bill: What would Germany do?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Voting-machines-HAVA-Hol-by-Bev-Harris-090319-382.html

 

CA: Diebold admits voting machine flaw

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/03/18/diebold-admits-voting-machine-flaw-had-been-aware-problem-years

 

CA: Bowen settles voting machine lawsuit [ES&S]

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/020851.html

 

CA: Voting machine maker agrees to pay Calif. $3.2M [ES&S]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/19/state/n120911D35.DTL&type=business

 

KY: Several Clay County Officials Arrested On Federal Charges

http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=10037216&nav=menu203_2

 

KY: Clay County officials indicted

http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/731826.html

 

MN: Waiting for Senator Franken as Norm Coleman Goes Long

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/astral66/2009/03/waiting-for-senator-franken.php?ref=reccafe

 

NY: Chautauqua County Voters Still Using Tried And Tested Lever Machines

http://post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/526075.html?nav=5018

 

NY: Green County - Group rejects voting machine switch in county

Change unwelcome, according to Citizens for Clean Elections

http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2009/03/17/news/news2.txt

 

OH: Editorial - A vote of confidence

Bipartisan effort ensures fairness in steps taken to improve elections

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2009/03/19/goodvote.ART_ART_03-19-09_A8_I8D92S0.html?sid=101

 

OK: Voter ID bill will decrease turnout, speaker says

http://www.normantranscript.com/moorenews/local_story_077011038

 

VA: Fairfax County - Big Questions about Voting Machines

Glitch in special election; but budget crunch causes Fairfax to go without voting paper trail until 2010.

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=326929&paper=71&cat=104

 

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